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Word: killer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to reveal the frustration of an escaped convict unable to trap the killer who has framed him becomes lost in a maze of bewildering side issues and incredible coincidences. Taxi drivers, plastic surgeons, small time grifters, and Lauren Bacall flit through the story in a circus parade of confusion that subordinates the basic theme to the point of obscurity. There seems no attempt to produce a graceful transition from seene to seene. Each skit drops down out of thin air, rumbles along to its maximum dramatic intensity, and then slowly sinks over the horizon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/11/1947 | See Source »

...life, and the safety of his children and his second wife (attractively played by newcomer Coleen Gray) depend much too precariously on secrecy and on police protection. Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark), against whom Nick is forced to appear in court, is unexpectedly acquitted; and Udo is a sure killer. The rest of the picture shows how Nick, with the help-and hindrance-of the law, tries to win permanent safety for himself and his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...Long Night. Melodrama about a rapped killer and why he did it. Henry Fonda, Vincent Price, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ann Dvorak (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...pain-killer called metopon hydrochloride is now available to doctors for relieving cancer patients (its use for any other purpose is forbidden). The National Research Council has found the drug a considerable improvement over morphine: it is twice as effective as a painkiller, is less likely to produce addiction, does not stupefy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Notes, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Long Night. Stertorous but exciting drama about a trapped killer and why he did it. Henry Fonda, Vincent Price, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ann Dvorak (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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